Permanent URL for EPEL configuration

[Remi Collet]

Le 21/12/2012 19:17, Kevin Fenzi a écrit :
> On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:59:14 +0100
> Remi Collet <Fedora at famillecollet.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why doesn't this exists yet ?
> 
> Because there's not an automated way to create it?

A simple one:

ln -f 6/i386/epel-release-* epel-release-6.rpm


> And having it be "when someone with access notices an epel-release
> update and happens to update it" is fragile. ;( 
> 
>> Most third party repository have some permanent URL.
>>
>> Each time epel-release is updated to a new version, so much stuff is
>> broken (doc, scripts, ...)
> 
> Where are these? In the wiki?

The wiki give a link to the repoview page.
This will allow to also use a permanent link

There is a lot of tuto using something like:
yum install
http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Search epel-release on google
You will find entry with 6-3, 6-4, 6-5, ...

Remi

> 
> Perhaps we could use a template file there? (then we still have the
> manual problem, but at least anyone with a wiki account could update
> it). 
> 
>> Is it so hard to simply create a link ?
>>
>> So:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/3605
> 
> No, but it's hard to keep maintaining that manually. 
> 
> kevin
> 
> 
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